debt-payoff

debt-payoff is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,219 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A debt repayment planner that compares paying the highest-interest debt first with paying the smallest balance first, using your actual balances, rates, and minimum payments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan credit-card or loan repayments, compare avalanche and snowball methods, and decide how to handle extra money or windfalls.
Why use it?
It shows the real payoff date and interest cost of each approach, including what early motivational wins may cost. It also accounts for months when your budget is tight.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/debt_payoff.py --debt "visa:9000:24.9:180" --debt "loan:3000:6:60" --extra 200.

Good fit Use it to plan credit-card or loan repayments, compare avalanche and snowball methods, and decide how to handle extra money or windfalls.

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About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,357 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/debt-payoff

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 115 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,219 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00115 $0.01219
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00122

Measured 9d ago against content hash ab296f81a884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

debt-payoff scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- [ ] Do not preach avalanche when the difference is trivial — momentum is worth $40
exports/cursor/pm-calculators/debt-payoff/debt-payoff.mdc · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debt Payoff Skill

The avalanche-vs-snowball debate has a correct answer (avalanche, arithmetically) and a true objection (plans people abandon save nobody anything) — and the only honest way to weigh them is to price the difference on the actual debts. Sometimes morale costs $40; sometimes it costs $4,000. This skill runs both strategies month by month with the script, shows what choosing early wins actually costs, and builds the plan around the constraint that matters most: it has to survive contact with a real budget.

What This Skill Produces

  • The head-to-head — debt-free date and total interest for avalanche and snowball, simulated on the real debts
  • The payoff order — which debt dies when, under the chosen strategy
  • The morale price tag — what snowball's early wins cost in interest, in dollars, so the choice is informed
  • The survival rules — minimum-viable version for bad months, and the windfall protocol

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Every debt — name, balance, APR, minimum payment; the plan is only as real as this list (and finding a forgotten debt later breaks more than math)
  • The extra amount — monthly money beyond the minimums, the honest number; zero is an answer that changes the conversation to budget or income first
  • Any special terms — promotional 0% windows ending (a deferred-interest cliff outranks every APR), variable rates, loans with payoff penalties (rare, but ask)
  • The track record — have they started and abandoned plans before? It weighs the morale argument with evidence instead of vibes

Programmatic Helper

python3 scripts/debt_payoff.py --debt "visa:9000:24.9:180" --debt "loan:3000:6:60" --extra 200
python3 scripts/debt_payoff.py --debt "a:2000:19:50" --debt "b:9000:6:180" --extra 150 --json

Deterministic month-by-month simulation: interest accrues, minimums are paid, the surplus cascades onto the strategy's target debt, and freed-up minimums roll forward. Fixed APRs, on-time payments, no new charges — the assumptions are printed with the result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 115 tokens per session scan B ab296f81a884

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debt-payoff is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,357 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,219 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.